Cameron: Megrahi "Should Have Died in Jail"
Britain's Daily Telegraph reports on PM David Cameron's attempts to calm criticism over the role BP may have played in the release of the Lockerbie bomber:
The Prime Minister, making his first official visit to Washington since taking office, said the decision to free Megrahi had been "profoundly misguided" but denied that the beleaguered oil giant had been in any way involved.
Earlier, No 10 said that Mr. Cameron had now agreed to meet a group of US senators who are pressing for a new investigation into the case.
Previously officials had said that Mr Cameron was unable to find time for talks with the senators in his "very full schedule" and had instead offered them a meeting with the British ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald.
With the political firestorm over BP in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico threatening to dominate his visit, the Prime Minister again sought to distance himself from the decision last year of the Scottish Government to allow Megrahi to return to Libya.
"I will say to them (the senators) that I agree that the decision to release al-Megrahi was wrong. I said it was wrong at the time," he told National Public Radio in Washington.
"It was the Scottish Government that took that decision. They took it after proper process and what they saw as the right, compassionate reasons. I just happen to think it was profoundly misguided.
"He was convicted of the biggest mass murder and in my view he should have died in jail. I said that very, very clearly at the time; that is my view today.
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